Friday, 1 February 2013

Here's how January treated various favourite genealogy sites. Comparable figures are for a month ago. The higher the Alexa ranking the more popular the site.

Most sites sank in the Alexa rankings. Exceptions were the DNA sites which gained, likely on the basis of the year end sale for Family Tree DNA and a major price reduction for 23andMe. The British Newspaper Archive likely dropped as Find my Past subscribers gained access without a separate subscription.

Ancestry.com has Alexa rank of 667 (671); ancestry.co.uk ranks 7,498 (7,578) and ancestry.ca 32,182 (33,316). There are 31,216 (31,322) datasets in the collections including 1,941 (1,939) for Canada, 1,685 (1,692) for the UK and, 25,058 (25,042) for the USA.

CanadianHeadstones.com has over 568,000 (548,000) gravestone photo records from across Canada.It scores 548,577 (631,105) in Alexa traffic rank. The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery, with over700,500 (695,000)photographs from across Canada, ranks 1,915,268 (864,650).

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I am guilty of not opening all your postings since the fall, then holidays stole time, and just this week - home with pneumonia - I am cleaning out 4000+ emails from the past 3 years. Found 36 unread (2012) and had saved them for later this week....... Seasonal obstructions? Ellen